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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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In The Paradox of Acting she'd read: All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
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Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Joyce Carol Oates
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June 16, 1938
(age 86)
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